Migration and remittances can be used by rural households as a means of insurance, investment, and income augmentation …

Ethiopia to examine the welfare impacts of internal migration. Using a number of techniques and various objective and … subjective measures, we measure the impacts of migration on the welfare of migrants versus non-migrants. We find large gains to … migration suggest that barriers exist, even within countries such as Ethiopia, against the free movement of people to places …

We investigate the extent in which northern Nigerian households engage in internal migration to insure against ex ante … and ex post agricultural risk due to weather-related variability and shocks. We use data on the migration patterns of … migration as a risk management strategy in response to both ex ante and ex post risk, but that migration responses are gender …